Member-only story
A Portrait of the Artist in the Advent of NFTs/Web3
or How I Became an Artist
If you’d like to hear my backstory before I got into tech, this is it! In this article I will discuss my artistic progression, my exposure with digital arts, NFTs and other technologies. I will paint a picture of what it was like to find my artistic voice through my young adulthood and how I got into the NFT space. My politics aside, I offer a perspective on the adoption of NFTs for traditional artists and provide two sources that discuss NFTs on a societal scale for deeper investigation.
I started creating art in 2009 amidst a deep clinical depression while I was living in New York City and attending Barnard College-Columbia University. It was the most horrible and amazing time of my life because I had sunk into the deepest depression as a result of isolation, being closeted and lack of emotional support. As a result, when by chance I got into a drawing class at Columbia, I latched onto art and produced some of the most profound drawings that I have ever made. It was an exceptional period of artistic discovery for me, as I shed the childhood dream of becoming a filmmaker, tarnished the notion of being a good student and started to hack together a notion of self while struggling through the delirium of depression.
